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Days of Cromwell
Are Re-enacted in
'Freedom' Broadcast
'Glorious Adventure' Is
First in Series of
Radio Programs
The adventurous days of Oliver
Cromwell and the "roundheads”
were brought to Washington radio
listeners last night by Civic Theater
players in the first of a series of
radio broadcasts on “Road to Free
dom,” sponsored by The Star with
the co-operation of the National
Broadcasting Co. and Georgetown
University.
The successful opening program
was centered around the period from
1642 to 1649 when Cromwell led the
revolution against the monarchy and
the theory of the divine right of
kings and instituted rule by Parlia
ment.
Historical Figures Background.
The historical figures, however,
were only background in the play,
"The Glorious Adventure,” in which
a young farmer who refused to yield
to the oppression of a lord of the
manor was the chief character.
Harrison Libbey, known to Wash
ington followers of the Civic Theater,
played the part of the young farmer
and Nancy Hitehinson the role of
his sweetheart, Joan, who feared for
their happiness because of his de
nunciation of the rulers of the land.
Others in the cast include Norman
Rose in the part of Hugh Peters,
chaplain to Cromwell; Joe Bourne
and Dixie Clendenan, the parents
of Joan, and Paul Walter, lord of
the manor.
Also participating were Betty Rice,
Donald Sisler, Edward Stevlingson,
George Finger, Ted Tehley, Robert
Anderson and Richard Gee.
Language Is Modern.
F. Cowles Strickland, director of
the Civic Theater for the last two
years, directed the cast for the pro
duction. The play was written in
the language of the present by
Charles Dillon, in charge of radio
W'ork for the Red Cross. Dr. James
T. Lowe, instructor of history at
Georgetown, worked with Mr. Dillon
to insure historical accuracy.
Programs on the freedom theme
will run for 13 weeks over Radio Sta
tion WMAL on Saturday nights
from 8:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Next week
the struggle for the bill of rights
in the Constitution of the United
States will be the background for
the dramatization and the week
after that will be devoted to Joan
of Arc and her part in the break-up
of feudalism. Christmas eve the
broadcast will take up the fight of
the Christians for religious freedom
in Rome in the time of St. Peter.
The series will be supervised by
Bill Coyle, radio director of The Star.
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Pennsylvania Leaders
Plan to Fete James
By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Dec. 3.—Re
publican leaders at the State capital
made hurried preparations tonight
to greet Gov.-Elect Arthur H. James
upon his return from his post-elec
tion rest in Texas.
Col. Carl Estes, close friend and
advisor to James, sent word ahead
that the Governor-elect's party
would detrain here early tomorrow
morning.
State Republican leaders as well
as the rank and file of the party
which regained its political prestige
behind Mr. James’ leadership have
been anxiously awaiting his return.
Little was seen or heard of him since
he was elected over his Democratic
opponent, Charles Alvin Jones, with
a quarter of a million votes to spare
November 8.
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Mrs. Nathan Broidie, 55,
To Be Buried Today
Mrs. Anna Broidie, 55. wife of
Nathan Broidie, died Friday at her
home, 4715 Fourth street N.W., after
a long illness. Funeral services will
be held at 11 am. today at 1125
Spring road N.W. and burial will
be in the Tifereth Israel Cemetery.
Mrs. Broidie had been a resident
of this city more than 30 years. Her
husband is a partner in the firm
of N. Broidie & Son, wholesale
dealers in drygoods and notions.
Mrs. Broidie was a member of the
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Slobodkey
Zeshiviah.
Besides her husband, she leaves
two sons. Dr. Herman S. Broidie,
dentist, an<B Jacob M. Broidie; a
daughter, Miss Eva Broidie; a
brother, Joseph Gorman, and a
grandson, all of this city.
Stickers
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cancel the sticker she had used and
•aid:
"In addition to signing the formal
•tatement requesting the removal
of the sticker from my pledge, I
should like to double my contribu
tion to the Chest. * * • No one
agency can solve all social problems
and pressure upon the Chest for
publicity purposes may well en
danger the sole source of aid for
those for whom the District has no
other provision. Since this was not
at all my intent in attaching the
•ticker, I can only make what
amends I can through this letter,
through increasing the contribution
and through what influence I have.”
Protests Forwarded.
Chest officials said many persons
evidently attached the stickers to
their pledges with the thought that
they were simply a form of protest
against the attitude of certain hos
pitals In the controversy with the
Group Health Association. The as
sociation itself, through its presi
dent, denied all connection with the
•ticker campaign.
Chest officials said “a much larger
number" of contributors than those
who used the stickers included with
their pledges “dignified protests”
with the request that they be for
warded to the hospitals. These pro
tests are being forwarded by the
Community Chest Executive Com
mittee to the officers of the hospi
tals from which the Chest buys
service for needy sick and injured
people, it was announced.
Meanwhile a decision on steps to
be taken to reduce the deficit await
a meeting, probably early next week,
Of campaign leaders. They have
been authorized by the Chest Ex
ecutive Committee to take whatever
action Is necessary to bring the
campaign to a successful conclusion
and thereby for the minimum needs
of welfare agencies in Washington
and the nearby area.
Since you are asked to play Santa Claus to Washington people
whose children are threatened with being passed up by St.
Nicholas this Christmas eve, perhaps you would like to see and
hear about some of them. A Star reporter and photographer vis
ited these the other day: At the left is the father of 15 children,
shown with two of the 11 still living at home. He is now trying to
feed them all on a part-time job with the District.
In the center is the mother of seven children between the
ages of 11 months and 10 years, including one set of twins. Pvt.
Jack O’Connel of precinct 5 regards them as one of the most de
serving families he knows about.
At the right is the mother of five children whose husband
has been working for the P. W. A. but is not employed now.
Kenneth, the 4-month-old baby in the carriage, hasn’t been any
too well. —Star StafT*Photos.
Chief Justice Russell'
Of Georgia Supreme
Court Dies
Had Held High Post
Since 1923; Senator
Russell Is Son
<e
By the Associated Press.
WINDER, Ga., Dec. 3.—Chief
Justice Richard Brevard Russell of!
the Georgia Supreme Court died of
a heart attack tonight at his home
at Russell, Ga., near here. He was
77 years old.
The chief justice is father of
United States Senator Richard B.
Russell, jr. His wife was in the
bedroom when he died at about 8:30
p.m., Eastern standard time.
Mr. Russell, a tall, wiry man for ■
his years, had served as the State's
chief justice since 1923. He came
to the bench with a distinguished
record on the Georgia Court of Ap
peals, of which he was chief judge
from 1913 to 1916.
His political career began in 1882,
when he was elected Clarke County's
Representative in the State Legis
lature, after graduation from the
University of Georgia.
He served three terms in the As
sembly and then was elected solicitor
general of the Western Circuit of
the Superior Court. In 1891 he was
elected judge of the circuit. While
judge of the Superior Court. Mr.
Russell entered an unsuccessful four
cornered race for Governor. The
following year he was elected to the
Court of Appeals.
The chief justice also had been
thwarted in an ambition to be United
States Senator when he was de
feated in 1926 by Walter F. George
for the post formerly held by the
late Thomas E. Watson. He later
had the satisfaction of seeing his
ambitions to be both Governor of
Georgia and the State's Senator ful
filled by his son.
Maloney, Once Official
Of Stock Exchange, Dies
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Peter J.
Maloney, a former governor of the
New York Stock Exchange and
member of the Chicago Board of
Trade, died at his home today.
He was a governor of the ex
change from 1919 to 1937, and senior
partner of the stock exchange firm
of Block, Maloney & Co.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, Peter J„ Jr., and E. Coyne Ma
loney; his brother, Gregory P.
Maloney, all of New York, and two
sisters, Mrs. Gray Sullivan of Chi
cago and Mrs. Louis Gelinas of Pat
terson, N. Y.
Burial will be at Mount Pleasant,
N. Y., Tuesday.
Memphis
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30 for purchase of the utility's elec
tric property. The field was re
opened later to include gas prop
erties and finally ran into today’s
decision for a competitive show
down.
W. J. O’Brien, president of the
Memphis company, in a letter to the
City Board of Light and Water Com
missioners, said the utility was ready
to carry out the September agree
ment calling for transfer of the util
ity’s electric properties only for $13,
500,000. Of this T. V. A. was to have
paid $2,000,000 for certain lines.
But since it was not the desire of
the city to go through with this,
Mr. O'Brien said, the company has
reduced its electric rates to the
level of those charged for T. V. A.
electricity. Memphis is distributing
to about 5,300 customers. The util
ity's new rates represent a reduc
tion in its charges from 35 to 40
per cent. The city withheld imme
diate comment.
Ready to Negotiate With T. V. A.
Mr. OBrien said that in addition
to the rate reduction the company
stood ready to negotiate immedi
ately with T. V. A. “for our power
requirements in the city and ad
jacent territory.”
Mr. OBrien said the September
agreement was made at “a grqat
sacrifice” of the utility’s electric
properties, but that it was entered
into “by reason of the federally
financed destructive competition
to which we are being subjected.”
That situation does not apply to
the gas properties, he asserted, and
“the price which you now suggest
for the combined properties is less
than one-third of the combined es
tablished rate base.”
The company said its outstanding
securities represent an investment
of $28,876,000. Therefore, the com
pany said, the city’s offer fell
short of property Investment by
$11,491,000.
BLASTS AT T. V. A.—Dr. Ar
thur E. Morgan, ousted chair
man of the Tennessee Valley
Authority, shown testifying be
fore a congressional commit
tee yesterday as he assailed
the T. V. A. board for “giving
power away.” —A. P. Photo.
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Biddle, committee counsel. After
the noon recess, however, Senator
Donahey, Democrat, of Ohio, chair
man of the committee, announced
that the witness would be permitted
to complete his testimony without
interruption. He will have an addi
tional hour before the committee
tomorrow, and then questioning will
start.
Dr. Morgan emphasized that the
agency did not take into account
services provided by other Federal
agencies. Also, he added, the T.
V. A. was not subject to social
security, gasoline, excise, unem
ployment on workmen's compensa
tion taxes.
He said the T. V. A. paid taxes
amounting to 5 per cent of its reve
nue from the sale of power at
wholesale. Private utilities paid
taxes ranging from 15 to 25 per
cent of their power revenues, he
added.
The witness said that if the T.
V. A. sold the entire output from
the Wilson, Wheeler and Norris
Dams it would receive $5,055,000 in
operating revenue each year. This
would be $2,188,000 below total op
erating costs, he contended.
Dr. Morgan told the committee
he had been working for some weeks
with “my small staff” to prepare
data on T. V. A. operations. He
said he would have a detailed ac
counting of T. V. A. operations for
submission to the committee to
morrow.
Chemical Changes Hue
Of Fruit Flies' Eyes
By the Associated Press.
PALO ALTO. Calif., Dec. 3.—A
powerful new chemical, probably a
hormone, which changes eye colors
of fruit flies, was announced today
at Stanford University.
The hormone challenges long
fixed beliefs that heredity alone
governs eye colors. It seems to be
an agency used by heredity and it
offers science a new lead for experi
menting with eye colors.
The chemical makes brown eyes
in white-eyed flies. Any shade of
brown can be had by regulating the
amount of chemical injected into
the fly’s body in the larval stage.
One gram would modify the eye
color of 4,200,000 flies.
The discovery was made Jointly
by biologists of Stanford and the
Rothschild Institute of Biology of
Paris, France. It was announced
today in Stanford’s biological bul
letin. The biologists are Doctors
George W. Beadle, Edward L. Tatum
and C. W. Clancy of Stanford, and
Doctors Y. Khouvine, Boris Eph
russi and Simon Chevais of Paris.
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Soil Waste Fought
To combat the enormous soil
waste caused by floods in New Zea
land a committee to investigate and
report has been appointed at Well
ington. A few months ago, when
disastrous floods occurred in the
Hawkes Bay region the sea was dis
colored several miles from the river
mouths. It was estimated that thou
sands of tons of soil were lost to
New Zealand in a week. The thin
coating of fertile black soil carries
all of the country’s prosperity.
Star-Warner Bros.-N.B.C.
Christmas Campaign
The Evening Star, Warner
Bros, theaters, the National
Broadcasting Co., the Metro
politan Police Department, Par
ent-Teacher Association. Peo
ples Drug Stores and Federal
employes in all branches of the
Government have joined forces
to help you provide food, cash,
NEW toys and NEW clothing
for needy children and needy
families in Washington this
Christmas.
NEW toys and NEW clothing
will be received at all Warner
Bros, theaters at any time and
will be taken as the price of
admission at 17 theaters on Sat
urday morning. December 17.
Non-perishable food and any
other gifts will be received at
any police precinct.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
PHONE NATIONAL 5000.
•RANCHES 450, 451, 452, 453
AND 239.
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Christmas
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they are sick with bad colds.
Where we live I use only one
coal stove, and sometime we
don't have fuel to bum and not
enough covers to put over them
to keep them warm at night.
They hare to do without all the
year 'round, and will you please
make them happy at Christmas
time? I will be happy if they
have some food and some warm
clothes if they don’t have any
toys. Thank you so much.”
Similar letters arrive daily at
campaign headquarters. Here is one,
rather pathetically addressed "To
whom it may concern”:
"I know of a worthy family very
much in need that I would like for
you to help Christmas if possible.
She is a widow with several children
in poor health and unable to work.
The only support they have is her
17-year-old son's salary, which is
about $30 a month. The mother is
without a coat. If possible, will you
see that this mother receives a coat,
size 16, and a Christmas basket? I
know that it will be very greatly
ap eciated.”
is regretted that there is not
space to publish all of the hundreds
of letters that make one wish to
contribute to the campaign.
Policemen Soliciting.
Members of the Metropolitan Po
lice Department are already solicit
ing gifts of non-perishable food to
make up baskets for needy families
Christmas eve. Anything you care
to give, canned food, cash and
clothing for persons of every age may
be left at any police precinct station
house. Or you may call the police,
National 4<XX), ask for Precinct 5,
and ask that a squad car be sent
for anything you care to give.
In the meantime, the campaign
moves ahead rapidly on every front.
Dick Foran, screen singing star, and
Johnny Broderick, pianist and en
tertainer, will be headliners on the
campaign broadcast next Tuesday
evening, through the courtesy of
John J. Payette, Warner Bros, gen
eral zone manager. *
Toy Matinees.
With organization work virtually
complete, the Federal Government
part of the campaign, under Harry
A. Daniel, heads this week into the
actual job of gathering contribu
tions from more than 60 depart
ments, bureaus and divisions.
And, of course, do not forget to
attend one of the Warner Bros, toy
matinees Saturday morning, De
cember 17, where a new toy or new
article of clothing will be the only
price of admission. Don’t forget
the children beyond the toy age
when you are doing this—neckties,
handkerchiefs, hose, shirts, sweaters
and the like.
Contributed to the campaign by
their distributors, the films for these
matinees are first-string attractions.
They will be shown at the Earle,
Metropolitan, Ambassador, Tivoli,
Savoy, Calvert, Uptown, Avalon,
Silver, Sheridan, Colony, York,
Takoma, Penn, Avenue Grand,
Apollo and Home Theaters.
A,
C.ofC. Hits Outlay
For Arms Mainly
To Prime Pump
If Indispensable for
Defense, Curtailment
Elsewhere Is Urged
Bs the Associated Press.
The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States made public yes
terday a recommendation that "if
there are to be still further in
creases In expenditures for Amer
ican armament, they should be
justified by need for national de
fense and not be a pretext for
pump-priming.”
This recommendation was made
to the chamber's board of directors
by its Committee on Federal
Finance. It also was forwarded to
the membership.
The committee report, made to
the board by Fred H. Clausen of
Horicon. Wis., chairman, said arma
ment outlays were ill-adapted to
business pump-priming.
"Heavy equipment of the military
type takes several years to com
plete and consequently the expendi
tures to be made cannot be timed
to coincide with slack business
periods,” the committee reported.
Reductions Elsewhere Urged.
“If increased armament expendi
tures become indispensable, they
should not operate to increase the
total of the budget, but should be
offset by reduction of other ex
penditures.”
The committee made numerous
specific recommendations respecting
Federal debts, appropriations and
expenditures.
These recommendations the com
mittee summarized as follows:
"The business community should
take all appropriate steps to develop
public realization of the significance
of the trends of Federal expendi
tures and debt and urge constructive
action thereon by Congress.
"Congress should end continuous
Federal deficits without imposing
increased taxation.
Congress should reduce deficit
financing in the fiscal year closing
June 30, 1940, and end it in the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1941.
Ask New Debt Limitation.
“Congress should require a defi
nite limitation upon new debt for
the fiscal year closing June, 1940,
to an amount required to pay con
tractual obligations carried over
from the current year and to give
only indispensable aid to communi
ties unable to provide reasonably
for relief of the needy unemployed.
“Until there is substantial re
duction of the Federal debt. Con
gress should avoid the establish
ment of additional spending agen
cies of the Government or any
new forms of Government expen
ditures.
“The business community should
itself refrain, and urge persons
or groups within or without the
Government to refrain, from ex
erting pressure for appropriations
of a special-interest nature.
“Congress should require aban
donment of a policy of expending
public money for ‘pump-priming.’”
Theater Has Room
For Crying Babies
By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY. Australia.—A new
movie theater here has a room
walled with thick glass into which
mothers can retire with their cry
ing babies and still see the screen.
Special equipment brings the film
dialogue into the room.
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600 Birds Entered
For Canary Club
Show Here Friday
Wild Types From Many
Countries Are to
Be Displayed
Six hundred canaries and import
ed wild birds will display their
plumes and frills at the fourth
annual bird show sponsored by th&
National Capital Canary Club be
ginning at 5 p.m. Friday at the j
Continental Hotel.
Mingling in the brilliant array,
the Hartz Mountain type of canary,!
top-notchers in the class of song
sters which grace the living rooms |
of American homes, will compete for ;
a challenge cup donated by The
Star. Birds entered in this contest
must have been raised in America.
Entry blanks may be had at any
local pet shop or from Mrs. F. J.
Jefferson, club secretary, of 22 South
Pershing drive. Arlington. Va.
Wild birds from Australia, Eng
land, Russia and China will be fea
tures of the show, which will be
open from 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday,
10 am. to 10 p.m. Saturday, and
from 2 to 10 p.m. on Sunday. A
floor show produced by Bernice Car
rico, conductor of a Washington
dancing school, will be presented at
8:30 each evening.
Ten Types.
Ten types of canaries will chirp
together in a three-day endless song.
Among them will be the Yorkshire
breed, called the “king of canaries,”
a streamlined bird 7 to 8 inches
long, developed in England, but
whose song is not so musical as that
of the smaller birds. Other English
and Scottish canaries to be featured
in the show include the Norwich
group, large round-bodied canaries
with a pleasing song, and border
fancy types developed on the Scot
tish border and called “Wee Gems.”
Another entry class will be open to
Scots fancy birds, a rare type of
canary which stands with its head
bowed.
Spectators at the show will also
see a type of canary called Frills, be
cause of their curled feathers. Fan
ciers often touch up the natural
curls with small curling irons. Also
on display will be Lizards, canaries
so called because they retain the col
ors of a lizard, with stripes of black
dots running in rows down their
backs. An entry section will also be
open to canaries called Mules or hy
brids, which are a mixture of all
types.
Washington Type to Be Shown.
One of the important features of
the show will be the first exhibition
of the Washington type of canary, a
white bird which Washington fan
ciers have been breeding to achieve
a dark brown crown on its head as
well as brown tips on the wings.
Fanciers say that to attain a per
fect type will take as long as five or
six generation of interbreeding.
This type was adopted in January
after the club's show last year.
Other birds to be displayed will
include parakeets, parrots, love birds
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and groups of four or more birds of
any variety in one cage.
Last but by no means least Pete,
the Yankee Doodle bird—the Ana
eostia canary, which reputedly lists
“Yankee Doodle” in his whispering
repertoire, will be on hand to ex
hibit his wares.
Officers of the club are: F. J.
Jefferson, president; Gene Wilson,
vice president; Mrs. Maude M. An
derson, recording secretary; Mrs. j
Jefferson, corresponding secretary;
G. E. Letner, treasurer, and M. D.
Smith, president ex-officio. *
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Navy Man Killed on Ship
HONOLULU, Dec. 3 UP).—Martin
J. Flemming, jr., 22, was fatally
burned today by a flareback of hot
oil while he was on watch alone in
the Are room of a Navy oil tanker
at Pearl Harbor. Mr. Flemming's
father lives in Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
One Out of 15 Quit .
W. P. A. in October
For Private Jobs
152,549, or 73.8 Per Cent,
Left Voluntarily,
Says Report
Py the Associated Preef.
The Works Progress Admlnistra.
tion reported yesterday that one a
every 15 men on work relief left thi
rolls during October, most of then
going voluntarily to accept privati
jobs.
Officials said 152,549 persons, a
73.8 per cent of the 206,733 who lef>
W. P. A. enrollment, quit volun
tarily. They said 68.283 of thesi
stated specifically that they were ac
cepting private employment, am
that it was believed most of thi
others also quit W. P. A. for jobs ii
private industry.
The remaining 26.2 per cent
dropped from W. P. A. rolls in Octo
ber were discharged or laid off, of
ficials said.
Last week Administrator Harry l
Hopkins ordered that 7.000 origins 11;
scheduled for dismissal from W. P
A. work in New York be retained
Upturns in private business woul<
make it necessary to reduce worl
relief rolls arbitrarily, he said.
Business improvement was count
ed on, Mr. Hopkins said, to reduci
relief demands sufficiently for W
P. A. to operate on present fundi
until March 1, as requested b;
President Roosevelt, and still noi
dismiss any needy persons.
The organization would attemp
to keep enrollment down by not re
placing persons who left for private
jobs, he added.
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